Three ways to focus investments for innovation and transformation

84 percent of top CIOs now have responsibility for areas outside traditional IT. The most common are innovation and transformation.*

For modern CIOs, success is not about the technology; it’s about using technology to drive business innovation and value. It’s about providing an always-on, secure digital workspace — without a costly outlay of capital. And it’s about efficiently and securely expanding into new markets and regions.

In other words, success is defined by strategic technology investments that enable the business and drive innovation. Success is, of course, easier said than done.

Today, a large part of success is about reining in costs while extending services to a wider array of people, devices, and things. The modern IT organization must become a partner to the business — not a cost center — integral to competitive value and strategic investment.

How are you standing up to the challenge? Inventorying and controlling fixed assets only underscores potential waste. With a complete understanding of the physical servers, data, devices, and apps in your purview, you‘ve taken measures to manage, control, and secure them.

It’s now time to focus your critical resources on accelerating business outcomes instead of managing day-to-day IT tasks. And you’ve made moves in that direction by adopting a cloud strategy that accelerates innovation and agility while ensuring flexibility and control. So what now?

A digital workspace unifies access to the all of the apps users rely on — Windows, mobile, web and SaaS — with performance and security that adapts to user context. Engineered to increase visibility and simplify management of all your apps, data, users and devices, a digital workspace helps you realize the full benefits of hybrid- and multi-cloud strategies.

Innovation as an investment priority

Making these investments now can help set up your company — and the IT organization — for a winning future. With careful planning and alignment with business goals, these investments can position IT as a change agent and prepare the business for the future.

What winning strategies can you apply now? Advance your cloud plan at your own pace. Look for services you can host and deliver them from wherever you choose — including legacy on-premise infrastructure — giving you the freedom to go all in with cloud, start service by service, or take a hybrid approach. Regardless of where services reside, apps, devices, and data should be easily integrated and managed through a single console for a unified user experience.